IELTS Speaking Test - Sample 11
Part 1 - Introduction
- Good morning. I am Vinnie. Could you tell me your full name please?- My name is Thuan Tran, but you can call me by my English name, Tina.
- I am going to need to see a legitimate ID, please.
- Sure, here it is.
Q. Are you working or studying?
A. I am currently working in a Bank in Vietnam.
Q. How long have you been working for this company?
A. I have been working for this Bank for the last one year. To be more precise, it would be 14 months now.
Q. What are you main duties?
A. I work there as a senior officer and my main responsibility is to take care of the bank customers including registering their complaints, issuing checkbooks, doing transactions, helping my co-workers etc.
Q. What do you like about work you do?
A. I had almost no experience in banking and financial sector before I joined the Bank. I have learned how the Banking sector function, how it helps rolling the economy of the country, how it contribute ensuring the money supply in the market and how financial world function. I am yet to learn a lot but I would say I have learned a lot in the last 14 months. The opportunity to learn is the most important aspect that I really love about my job. The working environment, the coworkers, and the salary structure are other attractive things I like about this job.
Q. What do you want to change or improve in it?
A. I would recommend more Bank account types for different segments of the population, also adding innovative and modern banking and more transparency in the Bank business. The bank is pretty organized and structures in Italy. There would be very little to change. But in terms of adding innovation, there are still plenty of scopes to implement.
Q. Do you like shopping?
A. I am not that much fan of shopping but yes, sometimes I love to shop, especially the food items, electronic gadgets, clothes and household appliances are in my favorite shopping list.
Q. What do you usually shop for? What food items do you buy?
A. I mostly shop food items for my home. Besides that, I often go to shopping malls to purchase clothes, electronic and home appliances. Whenever I find that my food reserve and daily necessity items are almost consumed, I feel the need to visit a shop. For the clothing items, I usually shop for different occasions.
Q. What time do you do the shopping? Why?
A. I usually shop the food items in the early morning. For the clothes and other items, I prefer shopping in the evening. From my experience, fresh food items and vegetables could be bought in the early morning when the shops get the supply. In the evening the fruits and vegetables are not as fresh as they are in the morning. And that’s why I prefer purchasing them in the morning.
On the other hand, I have more time to roam in the shopping malls in the evening after my work and for this, I prefer this time for buying items like electronic gadgets, clothes etc.
Part 2 - Cue Card
Topic:
Describe a child you know.
You should say:
- how old is he/she
- what does she/he look like
- how you two are related
Model Answer:
In our joint family there are several children and among them, the youngest boy of my eldest sister is the one I'd like to talk about. He is 4-5 years old and is my most favorite nephew. His name is Bin and I call him Cu Bin. I still remember the day he came into this world and I chose to name him Bin. He lives with my parents in a different city and they visit me almost 3-4 times each year.
From his childhood, he was very cute and adorable. I loved him very much and because of my affection towards him, he became very fond of me. I usually see him with an interval of 3/4 months and each time I get the feeling that he has grown up more.
We often play hide-and-seek and cricket together with other people and kids. He loves to listen to the ghost stories, adventurous stories, and fairy stories. While their stay at our home, he stays with me at night and I tell him bedtime stories. We often go to walk in the field, go to open places like parks, near river and forest. He likes to ask people a lot of questions. He likes ice-cream and I buy him chips, ice-creams, and chocolates. He has a serious sweet tooth and hates to eat any pungent food. I often cuddle him, make fun with him and play with him.
My affection and love for him are strong and I love to spend time with him.
Part 3 of the IELTS Speaking Module - Follow up questions:
Q. What kind of children activities are there available in your city?
A. Children in our city often play outdoor games, though this trend is changing day-by-day with the advancement of computing and gaming devices. Children can visit the museum, zoological garden, and amusement parks in my city. They often go to exhibitions from schools which they enjoy a lot. Many parents take their children to their relative or friends’ houses where they play and make friends with other kids. They are also allowed to watch the cartoon and other programs suitable for them.
Q. What do you need to do to interest a child in such activities?
A. We need to show our own engagement in an activity to show a child that this is particularly enjoyable and exciting. A child would easily engage in an interesting game if s/he notices that the adults are playing it. For creative activities like drawing, dancing, singing we need to inspire the child and appreciate his/ her talent. We need to give them the positive environment as well as making the activity fun to attract them. For visiting educative places like zoological garden and museum, we need to take them the places and explain their significance. Finally, a child is naturally fond of TV programs like the cartoon.
Q. What activities do you think there will be in the future?
A. As the technology is advancing rapidly and is becoming more popular among the children, I think computer games, the Internet, and TV programs would become more popular among children in the future. The schools are evolving from merely educational institutions to more entertaining and interactive, the schools would arrange a more social gathering, party and tour that would become prominent in the future and many children would get engaged in these activities. Parents would become more conscious to nurture the hidden talents among their kids and that’s why they would take them to different places to let them experience the world.
Q. What kind of pressure do children have at school?
A. From my experience, I can say that children nowadays have more classes to attend, more home works to do and more exam to take. From this regards, the children are burdened with the extended syllabus and lot of home-works. Many schools even make the project works and day-long classes mandatory and as a result, today’s children are under lots of pressure.
Q. What is your view of the school of the future?
A. I am pretty sure in future schools would become more interactive and interesting than it is now. Computer-based lessons and online exams would become the main trend of the education system and most of the schools would adopt the technology. Besides, they would focus on practical lessons than all theoretical study and finally the teachers would be more skilled to handle the kids in schools. Schools would focus on nurturing the potential talents of children and thus would develop more extracurricular activities to offer to the children.
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